Archive | Being UU

Alex (last name withheld by request) contacted us asking to share this post, believing that it matters that we talk about not only where we come from but how we found our way to where we are. It matters, because there are people like Alex all over, who need a community like their local Unitarian […]

Today is the first Monday of the new year in the common calendar. Not everyone is spiritually or culturally aligned that way, and that’s completely fine. In the grand scheme, it is a fair arbitrary designation, and one that no one should feel bound to if it doesn’t feel right. The fact is that every […]

“Anyone can love a thing because. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.” – Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear It is a simple thing for most UUs to tolerate others; toleration […]

More so than anything that has come out of a General Assembly or the UUA offices in Boston, my personal ministry, the I Am UU project, has been shaped by James Luther Adams and his “5 Smooth Stones of Liberal Religion”. I firmly believe that they are part of the theological foundation of my religion, […]

You are a person, with the same inherent worth and dignity as any other. You are not defined by the things that have happened to you, but by how you have reacted to them and how you have treated the world and the people around you. Your worth is not set by the amount of […]

5 years ago, though it seems like much more, I started a project called I Am UU. This wasn’t my attempt to claim the mantle, as a few very misguided souls have accused me of, but an effort to build a community of people who were proud to tell the world “I am UU”. Others […]

Love changes us. You cannot love or be loved and not be changed by it. There are physiological and chemical reactions in the human body. It is part of why sharing love is so scary. We are called to share love, though. It is part of being human. Rev. Lon Ray Call said, Prayer does […]

The guru Osho once said: If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation. An expansion on this thought, recently attributed […]

There are hundreds of Unitarian Universalist sermons online, and dozens more each week, in text and video. There are chat rooms and message boards for every possible subject, whether it should be discussed or not. There are book clubs, service fraternities, and political action groups aplenty. What Unitarian Universalist congregations have that is truly special […]

The Beloved Community is, perhaps, the closest Unitarian Universalists get to agreeing on Heaven; it is the idea that one day our Principles will be realized here on Earth, and all people will be treated in accordance with their inherent worth and dignity, afforded their right of conscience, and that we will have a world […]

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